Waterfall

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  Caring dove June 16th, 2022 01:16

  Beautiful poem Katie .. lovely writing .. especially love the last line .. elephant dancing in the moonlight‘
  
  

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  orchidee June 16th, 2022 01:40

  Good write Katie.

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  L. B. Mek June 16th, 2022 05:12

  ok so i know y'all think I'm pitifully crazy
  cos I choose to be somewhat, overtly effusive
  in my appreciation of the poetry y'all share..
  but here, lets compare
  your succinct and vivid, poem
  with one of the greatest
  to ever lift a pen
  (admittedly, I may be a fool
  but equally, all y'all Poetry is truly awesome):
  ' — but the waterfall itself, which
  I came suddenly upon, gave me a pleasant
  twinge. First
  we stood a little below the head
  about halfway down the first fall, buried
  deep in trees, and saw it streaming
  down two more descents to the depth
  of near fifty feet. Then we went
  on a jut of rock nearly level
  with the second fall-head, where
  the first fall was above us
  and the third below our feet still.
  At the same time we saw that the water was divided
  by a sort of cataract island on whose other side
  burst out a glorious stream — then the thunder
  and the freshness. At the same time
  the different falls have as different characters;
  the first
  darting down the slate rock like an arrow;
  the second
  spreading out like a fan;
  the third
  dashed into a mist — and the one on the other side
  of the rock a sort of mixture of all these. We afterwards
  moved away a space, and saw nearly the whole more mild, streaming
  silverly through the trees. What astonishes me
  more than anything
  is the tone, the coloring, the slate, the stone, the moss, the rockweed;
  or,
  if I may so say, the intellect,
  the countenance of such places.'
  from Keats letters